URI TZAIG (1)

SOLO EXHIBITION, 1998

19.02 - 17.03.1998

Uri Tzaig was born in 1965 in Israel. After a major in theatre
direction, design and playwritting (School of Visual Theatre,
Jerusalem), he started to combine the written and the visual, and
to use many mediums such as literature, installations, printed
matter and videos.

For his first exhibition in Greece, Uri Tzaig, In addition to
installations and objects, will show Play (1996):

"Play is an additional situation, a continuation of the
work Tzaig has created in which a game of football (soccer) is
conducted with two balls (Universal Square). Instead of the
standard situation wherein the rules are known in advance by all
and function in such a way that the spectator-viewer can identify
them, here the same set of rules is presented to the
spectator-viewer against the back-ground of a different
philosophical notion: there is no single purpose..." (in Art
Press, June 1997)

A new video, produced and realised in Athens during the stay of
the artist, will complete the show:

Tempo -10 minutes is a video work of 10 minutes comprised
in 10 parts (one minute each), filmed in different locations and
points a serie of "real time visions", edited with no narrative
line, building a new logic and structure.

One ball, two balls and many balls of varying nature are
a recurrent figure in Tzaig's art: they can move in any directions,
changing the rules into new possibilities of perception.

Travel and Language are a way for the artist to "un-map
the world", trough the narration and its translation, to build a
new structure of communication which "has the form of a question
rather than an answer".(in the catalogue Part One, Galerie
Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels)

Tzaig's nomadism allows him to redefine each specific
encounter with the world, familiar mode of perception are broken
and an open interpretation is introduced in their place.